This guidance tool was prepared by a team led by Urvashi Narain with a core team composed of Nagaraja Rao Harshadeep, Kavita Kapur Macleod, and Aditi Jha from the World Bank. The team is also grateful to Pyush Dogra from the World Bank and Adrian L. Vogl and Rafael Schmitt from Stanford University’s Natural Capital Project for their valuable insights.
The team would like to extend special thanks to the many experts and Bank staff who provided constructive comments on their experiences with Sediment modelling and management in different sectors within the Bank. Specifically, the team thanks Anup Karanth, Arnab Bandopadhyay, and Ranjan Samantaray.
The team gratefully acknowledges the financial support provided for this guidance tool by the South Asia Water Initiative (SAWI). SAWI is a multi-donor trust fund supported by the United Kingdom, Australia, and Norway, and administered by the World Bank. SAWI supports a rich portfolio of activities to increase regional cooperation in managing major Himalayan river systems to deliver sustainable, fair, and inclusive development and climate resilience. SAWI works in three river basins (Indus, Ganges and Brahmaputra) and one landscape (Sundarbans). Together, those focus areas span seven countries: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Nepal and Pakistan.
The team notes that this guidance note leverages earlier work on watershed management tools for sediment management and landslide risk reduction developed with the support of KGGTF in FY19 and in partnership with Stanford’s Natural Capital Project. Through the KGGTF activity, watershed management tools for sediment and landslide risk reduction were developed and applied to the Kali Gandaki watershed in Nepal (Valuing Green Infrastructure: Case Study of Kali Gandaki Watershed in Nepal) and the Mangla watershed in Pakistan.
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